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About face.
If someone changes their mind completely, this is an about face.
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Re "Doing an About-Face on 'Overmedicated' Children" (Books, Feb. 23): The myth of the overmedicated child is no myth.
After decades spent fleeing cities for the strip malls and boulevards of the suburbs, grocers and discount retailers are doing an about-face.
Wasn't she now doing an about-face, by telling young members of her Christian Democratic Union party that multiculturalism was dead in Germany?
When it became clear that the governor had remained behind, Mr. Bloomberg was captured on television cameras doing an about-face and hurrying to rejoin him.
To improve the recommendations, many software developers are doing an about-face from the mid-1990's, when they put their energy into getting computers to do all the work.
A Danish Muslim leader who seven years ago travelled the Muslim world fuelling the uproar over newspaper caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad is back in the headlines in Denmark after doing an about-face on the issue.
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He did an about-face.
She had done an about-face.
What's caused you to do an about-face?
I did an about-face and walked right out.
Right has done an about-face on another score, too.
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